Funny how the thing I hated in school is the thing I'm doing for money right now (and have been doing for 5 years). How is that even possible? The answer? Institutional education is trash.
Doesn't matter whether it's public school or private (although obviously private is a slightly better education). School isn't about teaching kids things they need to know. Ha, that's a joke.
Notice how kids never have any options as to what they are taught. Notice how they are never taught to be self-sufficient, but dependent on the state. How many children come out of school knowing how to tend a garden or scale up a farm? Nope, can't have that. Do something else and buy essential products from the corporations.
Just look at the homeschool kids and the stereotypes that come out of that situation. Homeschool kids are... odd. They don't know how to interact with their peers like those who went to institutional establishments. And it is a jungle out there. Kids are shitty and there are very little boundaries in place to stop things like bullying and whatever else. Puberty is a particularly ridiculous transition that turns toxic very easily within the society we've built. Boys will be boys! Mean girls get away with it every time.
Look at crazy ass Tom Cruise saying something smart. Drugs aren't about fixing a problem; they are about conformity. They are about hiding the problem so the person can go to work and continue being a productive slave to capitalism. Mask the problem. That is all.
Because every topic I was being forced to write about was shit. I had zero interest in writing a book report on some book I didn't even want to read in the first place. Who cares? Not this guy.
The only way to maintain interest is to write about something one actually cares about. Ironically enough, here I am meta writing about how writing is trash. Hm, that's a new one.
Can't write a five paragraph essay about Boo Radley but I can write 5000 words on the police state. Don't even need to take a break. Just keep writing for hours till it's done.
So what we can see happening here is that school actually turns off kids to learning. Being educated and 'a nerd' becomes the not cool thing to do. Haha, look at the nerd. He's trying. Look at him try!
If the things we learned about in school actually mattered (or more importantly the kids wanted to learn the things being taught) the fabric of our entire culture would change. Alas, I still live in this world. Too bad. So sad.
I'm sure I could write more on this topic, but in the spirit of my origins, meh. I'll just stop here. No reason to pad my essay to the minimum 3 pages required. Post ends when I say it ends.
